What we will do
- Acknowledge any request within five working days and respond substantively within one calendar month, in line with UK GDPR Art. 12(3).
- Restrict, anonymise or remove a page where the tribunal itself has issued a restricted reporting order or anonymisation order that the gov.uk listing did not reflect at the time we crawled it.
- Correct factual errors introduced by our extraction (e.g. an incorrectly-attributed respondent, a mis-extracted award figure).
- De-list pages from search engines (via
noindex) where we judge the public-interest balance has shifted, even if the judgment remains in the public record.
What we cannot do
We cannot remove or alter the underlying judgment on gov.uk — that is published by HMCTS, and any request to redact or remove a judgment at source must go to HMCTS. We will not remove an accurate index entry solely because it is unflattering or inconvenient — the judgment is already a matter of public record.
How to make a request
Send a request that includes:
- The URL of the page on Tribunal Watch you are requesting be changed or removed.
- Your relationship to the case (claimant, respondent, witness, named third party, legal representative).
- What outcome you are asking for and the basis (factual error, tribunal anonymisation order, change in public interest, etc.).
- For identity-sensitive requests, sufficient information for us to verify you are the person named — we will not act on unverified requests for personal data.
Contact details for editorial correspondence are on the About page. Our handling of personal data is described in the privacy notice.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have handled your request, you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.